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Bill Dane's New Wesite

Noted San Francisco photographer Bill Dane has just refreshed his website design and content. 

I have known Bill personally only for a short time, but have been familiar with his work for long. Bill has been a prolific photographer since 1970, after starting in the art world as a painter. His work is idiosyncratic, original and catching, with a very high level of aesthetic and semantic power. I find it a very interesting insight into our modern world and its symbology. "His pictues are pieces of a simultaneously poignant and synthetic puzzle telling us visual truths..." (Frish Brandt, Fraenkel Gallery.)

Bill is a recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowments for the Arts. His work is held at the NY MoMA, the Met, and the National Gallery in DC, among others.

You can, no... should see his work at: billdane.com

Berkely 2010, © Bill Dane

 
 

New Color Studies

Some new color photograph are also now on my website here.

(© Giancarlo A. Mori, 2009)

 
 

New Project

Pictures from my new project entitled "In Praise of Shadows", inspired by the work of Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, are now on my website here. The project is still under way, and has been shot in the neighborhood where I live during the summer month of 2009. The project is a reflection on the poetics of shadows and darkness, and their transformative effects on the familiar.

(© Giancarlo A. Mori, 2009)

 
 

Nov 1st Photo

Santa Monica store display (Aug 08).

(© Giancarlo A. Mori, 2008)

 

Apr 18 - New Picture for the Week

From Sydney, Australia, at the Paddington Markets.

Sydney (Apr 08)

March 28 - Picture of the Week

From downtown Santa Monica...

Broadway, Santa Monica (March 2008)

Mar 15, New Picture

Doorway from the Main Street area of Santa Monica...

More Italian Photography...

Is there an Italian photographic renaissance in the US? Perhaps, but there is certainly a renewed interest in artists that, while very reputable in Italy and Europe, have been largely unknown to the photo public in North America.

I have already covered in previous posts the solo shows of Patrizia Della Porta and Massimo Vitali. Now, with the opening of the Nile Tuzun Gallery in San Francisco earlier this year, artists such as Gianni Berengo Gardin, Francesco Jodice, Patrizia Savarese, Franco Fontana, Patrizia Della Porta (see previous post here), and many talented others seem to have found a permanent home in the United States.

The gallery, and the photographers it represents, was showcased in issue n. 57 (Mar 08, pag. 24) of Black & White Magazine, which featured profiles of, and images by, most of the photographers represented.

It is very encouraging to see such renewed focus on Italian talent here in the States, beyond the laudable work the Italian Institute of Culture in LA has been doing for some time to promote Italian photographers in America. We, for one, applaud the effort.

Venezia (© Gianni Berengo Gardin)

Coney Island (© Francesco Jodice)

Acquaria (© Patrizia Savarese)

Buenos Aires (© Franco Fontana)

Photo of the week (Feb 29th)

A store interior in Santa Monica downtown shopping district...

Santa Monica, 2007 (© Giancarlo A. Mori)

Photo of the Week

From Main St., Santa Monica.

Shop Window (Feb 2008, © Giancarlo A. Mori)